Below is a link to several interesting articles about Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart (Part 4 text). Those of you who decide to use this text for your Individual Oral Presentation (IOP) might find them particularly useful.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/chinuaachebe

Below you fill find a link to the directions for the double-entry journal assignment, to be completed as you read The House of the Spirits.

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Some interesting links to information and media related to Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits (Part 1 text).

http://www.isabelallende.com/ (The author's personal web site, including a biography, articles, interviews, etc.)
BBC World Book Club with Isabel Allende
An interesting documentary on Isabel Allende and magical realism (You have to pay to 3.49 Euros to watch it, but it is interesting if you have them time and the inclination,)

Here are a couple of useful online glossaries of literary terms.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/glossary_a.htm
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/17105

You can download the commentary writing handout I gave you in class here (in case you lost it!).

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BBC World Book Club podcast
"Margaret Atwood on Religion" (YouTube interview in 3 parts)

Here is another incredibly useful site on MLA style and the formatting requirements for in-text citations and documentation.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Current MLA format has the following presentation features:
• standard font such as Times Roman, Garamond, etc.
• 12-point type size
• 1-inch margins all around
• double spacing throughout, 1/2-inch new-paragraph tabs, no extra space between paragraphs
• automatic header and pagination with last name and page number set flush right
• student identification at left margin: student name, instructor name, course information, submission date, other information designated by instructor
• title centered and properly capitalized and punctuated
• parenthetical in-text citation of sources – see this helpful guide from Duke University Libraries for more information on in-text citation
• a separate page with alphabetical Works Cited for bibliography – you may refer to the MYP Guide to Research and Referencing for entry format requirements and hanging indent pattern
• see the MLA Style Guide and online updates at the MLA Website